Julianne Moore Just Brought Fresh Awful to Motherhood. Twice.

‘May December’ and ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ both ask: just how cruel can moms played by Moore get?

Jessicah Lahitou
Fanfare
Published in
7 min readJan 5, 2024

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The first film I can remember seeing with Julianne Moore was The Big Lebowski. Cast as Maude—a wealthy modern artist we meet painting from trapeze ropes and in the nude—Moore is…

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